While the rest of the world is busy with their normal lives, there are about 2.3 million people, for whom the whole definition of ‘normal’ has changed - a normalisation of once inconceivable horrors.
For the past two months, for them, it has become a new normal:
• to hear the non-stop and deafening sounds of bombs
• to see the reduction of their once-standing havens (homes, businesses, schools, hospitals) to desolate rubbles.
It has become agonisingly routine:
• to witness continuously, the demise of their family members, relatives and friends
• to starve, to just have a few sips of water in days
• to just run for their lives
In this stark reality, the once unimaginable has become customary:
• to hear cries for help from under the rubbles of weighty concrete of what was once the very place where one could stay safe
• to flee for safety (which of course, is nowhere)
• to see the new-borns throwing their arms around in their incubators, and then go still, forever
• to carry the injured in their arms, and see them breath their last
• to bury the dead, not just in ones, but in masses
• to hallucinate while awake
• to abruptly wake up frightened
It has become normal to die, nay, to be KILLED!
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